I Challenge You - File Folders

This week's challenge was chosen by my friend -- and it was........Use Decorative File Folders in your project.
At first I thought it was a hard challenge to do seeing I didn't have a archive of ideas built up, but then inspiration struck and the following project was "born."  In this project I was reminded how "less is more" -- by that I mean that you don't have to keep piling things on to make your cards look nice.......Clean and Simple was the order of the day.
If not for this challenge I wouldn't have accomplished anything "paper wise" in the past week!  So busy with so many other things!  My project this week was very quick and easy so here goes...
 I started with this file folder

And turned it into a card portfolio -- this uses the back of the file folder

Here it is opened up

Here are the four cards I made -- using the front of the folder

The really great thing with this project is that it took less than 1 hour to complete the whole thing and used only 1 file folder, some ribbon, two pieces of cardstock, and the Organic Flourish Embossing Borders.
Here's what I did:

• Cut the file folder in half
• Cut the tabs off
• On the plain piece --- Score 3 inches from the bottom and fold up to make pocket
• Turn folder
• Score at 5, 10 1/8, and 10 1/2 
• Fold on score lines
• In picture # 2 you can see that I cut 1 Inch off of the pocket fold on the right hand side to make the flap fold easier. 
• Make closure however you want -- either with Velcro, buckle, or a ribbon tied strap like I did

Now go over to my friend's blog and see what she came up with for this weeks challenge.